Week 33 - Rescued Critters Food Drive

Hi Folks,

With 17,000 pets to care for, PACC has the right manager in the right place at the right time.

Shari Mollencopf, a volunteer, restocks bins with donated dog food at the Pima Animal Care Center. PACC staff members and volunteers make regular trips to shelters, distributing more than 600 pounds of food a week to homeless pet owners.

Photo: Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star

Since she arrived at PACC in July, 2017, Executive Director Kristen Auerbach has moved ahead quickly to make a dent in a perplexing problem. When it comes to pets, homeless folks have them, but not much else. And they adopt them from PACC, Craigslist or pick up strays on the street.

Kristen decided to offer booties to protect their dogs feet from the really hot pavement and roadways around the city. This opened the door for more help for the homeless such as social services, pet food and medical care for their pups.

The article focuses on Kristen’s success in caring for at least 1,370 pet owners through the Pups in Boots program. A goodly number in a little over a year. But there was one homeless guy who didn’t quite get with the program and ended up loosing his dog. This one disturbing story took up a significant segment of the article, too.

Here’s what I think. If an idea is saving over a thousand street dogs pain and suffering, in addition to helping their owners take advantage of some social services, then that idea should be supported not subverted with “one” human failing.

Read the article and if you agree with me, let’s start adding some booties to our Sunday donations. They are a great way to help PACC achieve more success in protecting homeless pets with homeless people.

Here is the link to the Arizona Star article:  Booties for Pups

By the way, a single booty costs around $2.00. Of course, 4 booties are what one dog needs. 

This week we donated 72.2 lbs. of pet food and $75.00 in cash and one check.

See you Sunday,

Peter